Jack Smalley
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Jack Smalley is an American composer, orchestrator, and educator known for his work on numerous film and television scores and for teaching film scoring at institutions like USC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Smalley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5273687 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Smalley Context triple: [Mulan (1998 film score), orchestrator, Jack Smalley]
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A.
Taylor Dooley
Taylor Dooley is an American actress best known for playing Lavagirl in the family adventure film "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D."
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B.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
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C.
Harvey Pitts
Harvey Pitts is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pitts.
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D.
Joseph Ashburn
Joseph Ashburn was the second husband of American upholsterer Betsy Ross, who is widely associated with sewing the first United States flag.
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E.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Smalley Target entity description: Jack Smalley is an American composer, orchestrator, and educator known for his work on numerous film and television scores and for teaching film scoring at institutions like USC.
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A.
Taylor Dooley
Taylor Dooley is an American actress best known for playing Lavagirl in the family adventure film "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D."
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B.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
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C.
Harvey Pitts
Harvey Pitts is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Pitts.
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D.
Joseph Ashburn
Joseph Ashburn was the second husband of American upholsterer Betsy Ross, who is widely associated with sewing the first United States flag.
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E.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ music educator ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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music education ⓘ orchestration ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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television score ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
composing film scores
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composing television scores ⓘ orchestrating film scores ⓘ orchestrating television scores ⓘ teaching film scoring ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | film and television scores ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film composer ⓘ film orchestrator ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ teacher ⓘ television composer ⓘ television orchestrator ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Jack Smalley Description of subject: Jack Smalley is an American composer, orchestrator, and educator known for his work on numerous film and television scores and for teaching film scoring at institutions like USC.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.